Little Owl

[Andrew Robinson]

These used to be fairly common here but in the last few years are becoming hard to find. This Little Owl is in the top window hole of a stone field barn hence the slight upwards angle. I have cropped the photo in a bit for composition and filled in some of the black background where light was coming in through broken slates.

Canon 7D
500mm and 1.4x bean bag from a car window.

1/400 sec

400 iso
f/5.6.


Thank you very much for your comments on my last image.


Andrew

[John Robinson]

Thats a nice take Andrew. At least the stones are better than bricks !!! can't do much about that unless I ask the farmer if I can pull his barn down !
Like thre way the bird is framed. Pretty popular birds at the moment. I,ve got another for tomorrow.
cheers
John

[keith mitchell]

Hey mate pleased you have found one, not sure about mine yet. The bird looks near perfect to me and stands out well against that dark Bg,stone work adds interest ,all in all a very nice image.
Hope all is good with you.
Cheers Keith.

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Andrew, like the setting, the black BKG gives nice standout.

TFS
Steve

[Ian Wilson]

I like the composition and tasteful colour pallet. Even the bird's eyes harmonize with the yellow lichen. Well done, Ian

[Jonathan Ashton]

Great shot the bird is well isolated and shown to great effect. You may wish to consider toning down the brightness of the large stone on the LHS.

[Robert Kimbrell]

An attractive image, I like the stance with the open feet. I think the black b/g really shows him off nicely.

[Satish Ranadive]

Spectacular image. Very nice pose, dark BG and lovely composition.

Regards,
Satish.